POL355Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Political Correctness, Relativism, Domestic Violence
27 Jan 2018
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Topics concerning this lecture: private vs. public / political, egalitarianism vs. Case study #1 background: santa clara pueblo v. martinez (1978) Children born to pueblo mother & non-pueblo father weren"t recognized as tribe members: case(1): refers to membership rules making federal bene ts / services (e. g. healthcare) contingent on sex of the person. Martinez: referred it to discrimination amounting to symbolic + pragmatic wrong. Decided by: fresno county supreme court: kong pheng moua (23) abducted xeng xiong from fresno city college, and forces to her to have sex > xiong complains, and moua is charged with rape + kidnapping. Moua defence: refers to the fact that the defendant was practising customary. Feminists on this topic: aim to put in place programs to local / national govt. to vote in favour of peace in order to not take the cultural defence seriously. Why is conflict not always evident (4 main reasons):
